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Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax
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Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.
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The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.
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Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.
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'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.
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You don't actually do a project you can only do action steps related to it.
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First of all, if it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection bucket, that you know you'll come back to regularly and sort through.
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If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.
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Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.
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The real issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real issue is how we manage actions.
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Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.
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You don't actually do a project you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it done.
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Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.
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You can do anything, but not everything.
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The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.
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Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
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There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs
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There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.
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It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
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Some people have to move, physically, to get something. But if you're stuck in a chair, that's not your limitation - it's simply not an optimal condition for you.
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